Wolfish

/ˈwʊlfiʃ/

Synonyms for "wolfish" (103 found)

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Closest matches (21)

Adjective(2 words)

all-devouring all-engulfing animal anthropophagous atrocious barbaric barbarous beastly bestial bloodsucking bloodthirsty bloodybloody mindedbloody-minded brutal brutalized brute brutish canine

Strong matches (31)

Adjective(4 words)

canine cunning edacious esurient

cannibalistic cruel cruel-hearted demoniac demoniacal devilish diabolic diabolical dog-hungry doggy draconian empty extortionate famished famishing fasting fell feral ferocious fiendish

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fiendlike fierce foxlike foxy grabby grasping grim

Related words (51)

half-famished half-starved hellish hungering hungry infernal inhuman inhumane lupine murderous parasitic peckishpinched with hungerpredacious predatory rapacious raptorial ravening ravenous ruthless

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sadistic sanguinary sanguineous satanic savage sharkish sharp-set slavering starved starving subhuman tartarean truculent unchristian uncivilized unfilled unhuman vicious voracious vulpine vulturine vulturous

Adjective(3 words)

lupine wolflike wolfy

Adjective(6 words)

lupine predatory rapacious ravening ravenous voracious

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

5 entries

appearancebehavior descriptorcharacteristic descriptorfigurative language

More specific

4 entries

predatory expressionpredatory stancewolfish gazewolfish grin

Collocations

6 entries

wolfish demeanorwolfish featureswolfish gazewolfish grinwolfish lookwolfish smile

Inflections

2 entries

more wolfishmost wolfish

Derivations

3 entries

wolfishly wolfishness wolflike

similar

1 entries

gluttonous

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Here Dorcon concealed himself and anxiously waited for the arrival of the thirsty flocks; hoping that Chloe would be so startled and terrified by his wolfish appearance that he would be able to seize her and effect his purpose.

Source: tatoeba (6212484)

There are three principal breeds of native dogs found in Alaska—the Husky, the Malamute and the Siberian Dog—all descendants of wolves, with wolfish traits and the wolf's warm coat and powers of endurance.

Source: tatoeba (11620109)

a wolfish appetite

Source: wiktionary

“[…] Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog […]

Source: wiktionary

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